Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Splinter Unix?
Message-ID: <10991@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 25 May 88 16:20:03 GMT
References: <556@n8emr.UUCP> <1936@ssc-vax.UUCP> <581@tapa.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <581@tapa.UUCP> larry@.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
| Please don't forget that DEC was eliminated from an ongoing Air Force bid of
| some $970mil (If I recall correctly).  Being barred from almost a Billion
| dollars worth of business is sure going to make the likes of IBM, DEC and HP
| take notice.
| 	Larry
| 	ihnp4!tapa!larry

I'm missing something. Why was DEC barred? With BSD4.3, SysVR2 (and R3 I
think) and Ultrix, were they dropped for some reason related to UNIX, or
did they bid a UNIX contract with VMS?
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me